California winter rainfall reportedly sparks renewed gold rush
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With the record rainfall over the winter and wildfires of recent years, treasure hunters are again combing the loosened rocks andoccurred about 175 years ago, but hopeful prospectors see the recent weather as a fortunate circumstance that may help pan out their search for gold around Sacramento and Placerville.
As massive snowpack built up during the winter storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains begin to melt with the warmer weather, the rushing water pushes gold in the mountains down into the rivers, The New York Times reported Saturday. "Anytime you can stand next to a river, and you hear the boulders tumbling, you know the gold is moving, too," Jim Eakin, owner of a firewood business in Placerville and amateur gold seeker, told the newspaper.
Several treasure seekers told the outlets that they have come across gold nuggets and flakes during their treasure hunts.
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